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The PokéSmash College of Design
Welcome, prospective graduates, to the PokéSmash College of Design! Whether you have creativity, experience, or knowledge, you can graduate with honors if you apply your strengths.
Note: Not all criteria will be weighted the same depending on the prompt. Not all examples are applicable to all prompts.
Wave - forever alone
If you'd like to contribute, whether it's by judging suggesting prompts, feel free to PM me.
First win:
Second win:
Third win:
Fourth win: Your Choice of
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Round 1 Results
Create an item that makes one or more currently UU Pokemon competitively viable in the OU metagame.
Round 2 Results
Design a Pokemon with the ability Illusion. Include its typing, base stats, and a list of competitive moves your Pokemon learns. Source of move (ie tutor, egg move, etc) not required. Specify which tier the Pokemon would be used in (OU will be assumed otherwise).
Round 3 Results
Give any one Pokemon with one type an additional type. For example, you could make Pichu Electric/Dragon. Any and all effects, such as but not limited to weaknesses and STAB, are taken into account.
Round 4 Results
Give any Pokemon any existing ability.
Round 5 Results
Propose a moveset to take advantage of five moves.
Round 6 Results
Change the effect of the ability Pressure.
Round 7 Results
Create a Pokemon-specific item.
Round 8 Results
Give a dual-typed Pokemon a third type.
Round 9 Results[/collapse]
Welcome, prospective graduates, to the PokéSmash College of Design! Whether you have creativity, experience, or knowledge, you can graduate with honors if you apply your strengths.
Rules:
- Entries must not violate the Global Rules.
- Each round will last roughly one week. Deadlines will not be extended for specific people.
- Unless otherwise stated, you may only sumbit one entry per round.
Entry Guidelines:
- Do not stray from the prompt too far. Slight deviations may be allowed in certain cases, but try to err on the side of caution.
- Most prompts will generally fall under two categories: concepts and goals. Concepts will have one or more conditions that you have to work with; what you do with the conditions is up to you. Goals are, unsurprisingly, a goal you must accomplish. Similarly with concepts, how you reach the goal is up to you.
- You aren't required to completely explain the ramifications and possibilities of your creation, but if you don't, you're leaving it up to the judges to guess what they might be.
- Entries may be sent in by PM if you don't want to get other people's advice / to intimidate people from entering. PMs must be sent to both myself and Wretched.
- Originality counts. You won't be disqualified if your entry to the prompt "design an item" is a hold item called "Doul Sew" that raises Attack and Defense by 50%, but it certainly won't make you look good.
- Plagiarism is naughty, though. Entries that are blatant knockoffs of others' creations (for example, CAPs) will be disqualified.
Judging Criteria:
Note: Not all criteria will be weighted the same depending on the prompt. Not all examples are applicable to all prompts.
- Creativity: This isn't limited to just making weird things that no one else has thought of. Think outside of the box.
- Competitive: What does your design do? Does it make a certain set of Pokemon viable, or would it drop them down a couple tiers? Does it introduce balance, or does it lead to bans?
- Sexiness: Call it whatever you want; awesomeness, badashery, brilliance, swag. Keep in mind that complexity and simplicity both have their appeals. Do you create an entirely new Pokemon, or do you slightly tweak an existing one? Do you introduce a new type of Pokemon, or do you tweak a move's base power?
Judges:
Wave - forever alone
If you'd like to contribute, whether it's by judging suggesting prompts, feel free to PM me.
Postbits:
First win:
Second win:
Third win:
Fourth win: Your Choice of
Current Prompt:
[collapse="Past prompts"]Give any one Pokemon any one move.Deadline: July 8th at 12:00 midnight CDT
Pick any one move to be a new BW2 move tutor and some of the Pokemon that will learn it (distribution within reason; Venusaur isn't getting Sacred Fire anytime soon).
Round 1 Results
Create an item that makes one or more currently UU Pokemon competitively viable in the OU metagame.
Round 2 Results
Design a Pokemon with the ability Illusion. Include its typing, base stats, and a list of competitive moves your Pokemon learns. Source of move (ie tutor, egg move, etc) not required. Specify which tier the Pokemon would be used in (OU will be assumed otherwise).
Round 3 Results
Give any one Pokemon with one type an additional type. For example, you could make Pichu Electric/Dragon. Any and all effects, such as but not limited to weaknesses and STAB, are taken into account.
Round 4 Results
Give any Pokemon any existing ability.
Round 5 Results
Propose a moveset to take advantage of five moves.
Round 6 Results
Change the effect of the ability Pressure.
Round 7 Results
Create a Pokemon-specific item.
Round 8 Results
Give a dual-typed Pokemon a third type.
Round 9 Results[/collapse]